Name: HARDY | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #433
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'HARDY | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #433' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-07. Transcript available.

HARDY | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #433

I have a new tour date to announce. Springdale, Utah on July 6th at the O.C.
Tanner Amphitheater.
The pre-sale begins Wednesday, March 8th at 10 a.m. local time with code RATKING.
And the general on-sale begins Friday, March 10th at 10 a.m. local time.
We've added a fourth show in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 1st at the Encore
Theater.
I will also be in Hollywood, Florida on April 7th at Hard Rock Live.
That's the day before the Miami UFC fights.
We will be in Uncasville, Connecticut July 21st, Bethlehem, PA July 22nd, and
Atlantic City, New Jersey on July 23rd.
All tickets are available at Theovan.com slash T-O-U-R.
Today's guest is an award-winning singer and songwriter.
He's written for some of the greats like Morgan Wallen and Blake Shelton.
He has a new solo album, The Mockingbird and The Crow, which he's out touring
with right now.
I've gotten to know him over the past few years, and there is no one just more
down to earth and enjoyable to be around than this man.
Today's guest is Hardy.
Shine that light on me
I'll sit and tell you my stories
Shine on me
And I will find a song
I'll be singing
This house is dope, dude.
I live, like, I could walk here.
I would be tired, but I could walk here.
Could you really?
Yeah.
I mean, I would be tired.
It would take me 20 minutes.
All right.
So, it would take you how long to walk here?
I mean, maybe 30 minutes, but it's like two miles.
It's like a mile and a half.
But that's not walking somewhere.
That's your, at that point, you're hitchhiking.
Yeah, kind of.
I could bum a ride here.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I could bum a ride here.
That's, I feel like that feels like a better state.
Yeah, that's, I don't know why people don't use that.
Like, because, because technically, you know how they're like, you could walk
there and like, technically, you could pretty much walk any, like, you could
walk anywhere.
Until you had to swim or whatever, but.
Yeah, you could walk on the seat.
Like, it's crazy.
It's crazy to think of the old days when people were like, I'll head over and
they got there like four hours.
Oh, yeah.
Anything, anything could happen between them.
Like, you wouldn't know.
Yeah.
Like, you'd have to be like, you'd have to call somebody on a pay phone and be
like, I'll see you on Saturday.
And before pay phones, it was like, by letter, it was like, I'll be there next
month.
And then they never showed up and they just like, got killed by a bear or
something.
Or people like, like a parent showed up and they're like, where's our daughter?
And the guy's like, you know.
She fucking died or something.
She went to get some water and I haven't seen her.
He's lying.
He took her, he took her life.
Yeah, exactly.
That's like some Game of Thrones shit, dude.
Oh, that's heartbreaking, man.
Yeah.
We live in a, we live in a more convenient time than, than ever.
Yeah.
It's pretty wild.
It's so, yeah.
Things are almost too convenient now.
It is, dude.
We, I've, I've, somebody needs to do a study on this, but I get, I think that
like,
do you remember like in the nineties, eighties, whenever, but that when you
heard a song on
the radio that you loved and you, the next time you got to hear that song was
on the radio.
Yeah.
So, and it was so euphoric to hear that song again because you didn't have
access to it.
Where now it's like, if you like one song, you can go listen to every single
thing that
artist or whatever has ever done.
Yeah.
And back then you had the, the luxury of having that euphoric moment of like,
oh, having that
to yourself, you know, and then having to like record it on the, on the fucking
cassette.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it almost felt magical too.
Like if it came on at a certain moment, it was like that, that was like the
gods telling
you, this is it, you know?
Yeah.
Like, oh, I was driving by and this played and there she was.
Yeah.
And you had no control over it.
It just had to happen to you.
Yeah.
And now you can sit outside of somebody's house for like seven hours and play
the same
song over and over again, you know, until the cops show up and take you
somewhere.
Yeah, exactly.
But it's like, you couldn't, yeah, before you couldn't, you couldn't build up
that dirty
momentum like you can now.
Dang, dude, that is so crazy.
But then think of how much power the DJ had back then.
Yeah.
Cause he's like, you know what?
Right now I feel things out there kind of slipping, slipping out of our grasp.
I'm going to put you guys on something.
And he put out a love tune.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or like, we are the world.
You know what I mean?
Like, oh, he, he controlled the narrative of people's lives back in the day.
It's pretty crazy.
The DJ was powerful, wasn't he?
It was like the DJ had a dance.
It was like that, but for the whole city or a nation, it was like when that
song came
on, it was like, this is what everybody's going to feel.
If somebody right now is like, if two spouses are fighting or whatever, the
casserole ain't
good.
I'm about to hit them with this love ballad and everything's going to change.
Yeah.
And that's the only way that they could hear it.
They couldn't do it themselves.
Let's see how to.
A violin or something.
Yeah.
Or a capability.
Yeah.
You know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'd have a real capability.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Hardy.
Good to see you, man.
Happy to be here, man.
I know.
I'm stoked.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for your time.
Thanks for it.
I know you were, uh, had to, or, or post your flight or let, or leave it
tomorrow now.
I really appreciate you making the time, dude.
I am.
I'm glad to make it, man.
Um, I'm so happy for your career, dude.
Thank you.
It's been awesome.
Past couple of years has been incredible, bro.
I didn't know you were such a, it's almost like going to a fitness.
It is like going to a dang show.
Yes.
When you go see Hardy, if you have not, if you haven't gone to see Hardy, then
you, you
need to go see him.
Um, you're going to be touring with Morgan and doing, what do you, what do you
have?
Right now I'm on, I have my first like real live nation, like headliner tour,
the Mockingbird
and the crow tour.
And we're like a quarter of the way through it now.
It's only like 20 shows.
So, uh, like five weekends, but, uh, yeah, this summer I'm doing the, uh, uh, I
guess it's
called one night at a time tour with Morgan.
I should know.
I should be more confident with that, but I think that's what it's called.
When Morgan, uh, Ernest, uh, and Bailey Zimmerman, and then Parker McCollum is
going
to when I, there's some shows that I can't do cause I had other shows booked.
So he's, he's doing, filling my spot when, when I'm gone or whatever.
Nice.
And that's dude, like two nights at the biggest venues in the world is like the
craziest thing
to me.
Uh, it just.
Like, what do you mean when you say, when you're saying that you're like.
Like, well, just Morgan, like I've known him for so long now.
Like he, you know, he's always just been Morgan and, and it's just, it's so
hard to process
that one of my friends is literally, quite literally the, one of the biggest
artists on
the planet.
Like college football stadiums are the biggest, like that's like seven of the
top.
He's a white usher.
Yeah, dude.
Yeah.
Maybe even white Michael Jack.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, yeah.
He's like, I don't know.
He's the Michael hat.
He's a country Michael.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
But no, he's like Elvis Presley.
Kind of dude.
It's, it's crazy.
Yeah.
And like, I just, I don't know.
I came up with him and like, I, I, I like toured with him.
Like he brought me on my first tour as an opener and we were doing like rooms
of like
800, maybe to 2000, you know, and just to know that he's doing technically like
80,000
people and shit is fucking unbelievable.
So proud of it, man.
Yeah.
Oh, it's, I mean, it's, I mean, I've only known you guys for maybe a couple of
years and
I went, I got to go to some of his shows last tour, but the thing, and it was
amazing.
I mean, when Morgan goes on, you know, you've heard, I never realized that I
could
sing for two hours straight.
Like everybody, you know, every single word, everybody in the whole place is
singing it
too, which is awesome.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
Pretty unreal.
But watching you, man, it is like a fit.
It's like, I'm like, dang, if that guy's wearing his, like his Fitbit.
I just said that in an interview, like an hour ago.
That dude is, he going to step out.
He's going to beat his year and a half.
Somehow I get fat when I go on tour, dude.
I have no idea how, dude.
Well, cause it's, yeah, it's just incredible, man.
It's such a show, bro.
It's so powerful.
Yeah.
I'm just, it's, I don't know.
I just have the, I feel like I grew up like watching rock shows and then like FGL
had me
out a lot, like early and I got to watch their show and how active they were.
And like, I don't know.
I just feel like I learned from that.
And that's just kind of the only way I know how to, you know, translate all
that into mine
or whatever.
Yeah.
And it just feels like it fits you.
It feels like just like, oh, you're just getting who Hardy is.
That's what I'm feeling like.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
This is who this guy is.
This is real exciting.
Yeah, man.
It matches the music too, especially with like, we're doing the rock stuff now.
And, and so it's the music itself is really high energy.
So I feel like I'm just having to keep up with my, the mute, the songs, you
know?
Oh, dang.
Train all that at the same time, I guess.
Are there ones where you got to take a couple of breaths before you start the,
bro?
Yeah.
There's dude, I, there are some songs that I am like suffocating, dude.
And I literally, I'll just like hold the mic out and be like, you guys come on.
But really I'm like, just fucking dying, dude.
Just trying to catch my breath.
And have your fans are probably smokers too.
Like, no, no, you, you do it.
No, you, no, you.
And I'm like, no, fucking seriously, dude.
Yeah, there's times for sure, man.
It's like the first, right now our set, the first six songs is like a ball buster,
dude.
And it's awesome, but there's like no break.
And they're the first five songs, especially are like all the, the biggest,
like the heaviest,
like rock songs and the biggest singing and screaming songs.
So there's like no break.
It's crazy.
That's fine.
It's Austin, but it's fun.
Yeah.
The new album is so mockingbird of the crow.
It's like, um, it reminds me some of kid rock in a way.
That's, yeah, it reminds me of kid rock and, and then obviously country music.
Yeah.
You know, so it's, that's, uh, and people say you look like kid rock too.
Dude, you remember we were somewhere when you met kid rock.
Weren't we in the same place?
Oh yeah, we were.
Dude, it was, uh, Miranda Lambert opened her bar.
Yes.
The, uh, um, oh man, Casa, Casa Rosa or something like that.
Yeah.
Like a Spanish bar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And downtown.
And, uh, yeah, she had a big, big star studded thing.
There we go.
Yeah.
And people, people had always told you, you guys look like each other.
Well, yeah, dude, I get it.
I'm seeing more memes and stuff now, but I, yeah.
And I like that night when we met, like he already knew about it, apparently.
So like, he made a joke.
He like, was like my long lost brother, which kind of that, cause, cause I, I
was a huge
fan of kid rock back in the day, like massive and still am.
And I know him now, which is crazy, but I love him.
And, um, yeah, so he was in on the joke and like the first thing he did is like
took my
hat off and put his hat and was like, let's take a picture, you know, twins or
whatever.
It was cool.
Yeah.
But yeah, that was that night.
I was, I was, I forgot about that.
I was, that was really cool.
Yeah.
I think I, honestly, I think I might've taken one of those pictures.
I want to look through my pictures and see.
Um, yeah.
So where did some of that, that come from for you?
So, because some guys don't have that, both sides of that thing.
They're really, they're in one world kind of, but you don't, you